Alfred Hajos -the first Olympic swimmer

The holder of the first Olympic swimming gold medal was the then 18-years-old Hungarian., Alfred Hajos. But Hajos was famous not only as a great swimmer. He was the chief trainer of the national football team, director of the first Hungarian sports paper and the designer of a number of original architectural projects. As a matter of additional interest, Hajos won the silver medal for his sports stadium project in the Olympic Arts Concourse in Paris in 1924. In 1980 Hungary released a single-sided postcard with an original stamp and a special postmark dedicated to Alfred Hajos. Both of these postal souvenirs tell of the "golden tale" of 1896.

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